Yo La Tengo Hanukkah

I always enjoy all the speculation and anticipation of who will be opening these shows ever year. This year is no different Pussy Galore are opening tonight it looks like! And Glands are opening Christmas Eve show!

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Spooks, it's not that this subject is not deserving of its own thread.

It's just that you'd have much better luck getting people to discuss this topic on a message board that actually has users that live in NYC rather than this message board that has, oh, maybe 3 users who live in NYC?

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For Cutterbutter who saw Blink 182 more than once in year 2011 and put those shows in his top 2011 shows (Oh and Jimmy Eat World! Didn't know they were still around), I don't blame you for not knowing Yo La Tengo at all

If you like Yo La Tengo, these shows are amazing. Very different from a normal Yo La Tengo show in that they play 8 of them in a row, so they take the time and really go through the catalogue. You will hear songs from almost any album and they bring the guests on stage for different versions or songs that are hard to do live as a trio. For example, first night of hanukah in 08 they had Janet Weiss drumming the whole time, so with 2 drummers they played a lot of songs differently, with odd choices. You never know what you will get and it's almost always something fun and different. LOTS of Ira freakouts and covers. Lots of jokes and weird behavior. Lots of obscure songs. It's really awesome, but not for the casual fan. This is not how I would introduce someone to Yo La Tengo.

Yo La Tengo Maxwell's 12/23 Setlist:
Detouring America With Horns (DR on bass)
Nothing To Hide
Avalon or Someone Very Similar
Porpoise Song (Carole King) (DR on vocals)
The River of Water
Serpentine
Ben Wa Baby (Phil Milstein)
Don't Have To Be So Sad (with Rachel Blumberg on drums)
Saturday (with RB)
Coloured (Chris Knox)
Black Flowers
Today Is The Day (fast)
Some Kinda Fatigue
Tom Courtenay
More Stars Than There Are In Heaven

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Whew! Although it wasn't the Feelies, we got The Trypes which was totally unexpected as they don't play much at all! It was a trippy, retro set by Feelies "side project/spin off" the Trypes. Then SNL vet Chris Elliott took the stage and performed his own version of "I Am, I Said'' while backed by YLT. I saw someone taping it so hopefully it'll show up on Youtube soon. Absolutely hilarious and the only time I enjoyed hearing Neil Diamond song...YLT was class act all the way. Noise + pop = fucking awesome. For the last encore of the night, they brought out Ira's grandmother for "My Little Corner of the World" Thanks Ira &co, good times as usual. Get some fucking rest and hope you feel better! Can't wait for next year to do it all over again

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3 more days till Hanukkah! Who's opening for YLT this weekend...

I think Nels Cline will show up next week since he's playing with Medeski Martin & Wood but who else?! Let's see who's in town next week: Andrew Bird, Thurston Moore, James Blake, DJ Shadow, Black Dice, OS Mutantes, & Sharon Van Etten...oh Rolling Stones and whoever is booked for 12/12 benefit show @ MSG!

Here's the full guest lineup for the Blue Note residency for Medeski Martin & Wood!

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Yo La Tengo at Maxwell's8 December 2012
Hanukkah, night 1

The Raybeats and Emo Philips opened
benefit for Fund to Rebuild Hoboken
mix disc by Tom Scharpling

Night Falls on Hoboken
Seven Day Weekend (Doc Pomus) (sung as "Eight Day Weekend")
The Evil That Men Do (Craig's version)
Stockholm Syndrome
Paddle Forward
Before We Run
Beanbag Chair
Big Day Coming (acoustic)
Satellite
Tom Courtenay
Artificial Heart
The Kid With the Replaceable Head (Richard Hell) (with Jody Harris of the Raybeats/Contortions on guitar)
Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind (with JH)
*(encore)*
Drug Test
Take A Giant Step (Carole King and Gerry Goffin)

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Originally Posted by Spooks

For Cutterbutter who saw Blink 182 more than once in year 2011 and put those shows in his top 2011 shows (Oh and Jimmy Eat World! Didn't know they were still around), I don't blame you for not knowing Yo La Tengo at all

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Tonight: Real Estate and the comedian is Todd Barry! The Feelies played for over an hour last night FML! Enjoy 16 mins jam of Sister Ray below...

I said it last night, and I just may say it again tomorrow: Without the Feelies, I can’t really imagine our band being around today. They wanted to contribute in some way to the recovery from Sandy, and really I have no words to describe how it felt to have them spend night three of Hanukkah with us.

The Feelies and John Mulaney opened
benefit for the Food Bank of New Jersey
mix disc by James

The Feelies:
Deep Fascination
For Now
Invitation
For Awhile
On the Roof
Let’s Go
Higher Ground
The Final Word
Slipping (Into Something)
Away
Way Down
When You Know
Doin’ It Again
Time Is Right
Raised Eyebrows
Crazy Rhythms

Spec Bebop
We’re An American Band
The Crying of Lot G
20th Century Boy (T-Rex)
Out the Window
The Point of It
The Summer
Don’t Have To Be So Sad
Double Dare (acoustic)
Big Day Coming (fast)
Nothing To Hide
Decora
Mushroom Cloud of Hiss

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El-P (with James on bass) and John Oliver opened
benefit for the Brooklyn Recovery Fund
mix disc by Georgia

From A Motel 6 >
I Should Have Known Better
Here To Fall
Can’t Forget
I Can Hear Music (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, & Phil Spector)
If It’s True
Mr. Tough
Nowhere Near
Cornelia and Jane
Deeper Into Movies
Some Kinda Fatigue
Sugarcube
The Story of Yo La Tango

Everyday
One PM Again
How To Make A Baby Elephant Float
Last Days of Disco
Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1)
Little Eyes
I Fall In Love Too Easily (Jule Styne & Sammy Cohn) (Andrew Bird on vocals)
When It’s Dark
I’ll Keep It With Mine (Bob Dylan)
Stupid Things
More Stars Than There Are In Heaven
Heroin (Velvet Underground) (Roky Erickson arrangement)

*(encore)*
Griselda (Antonia)
Song For the North Star (Jorma Kaukonen) (with Devendra Banhart on vocals)
If I Only Had A Match (Lee Morris, Arthur Johnson, & George W. Meyer) (with DB)

whole set (minus “Ohm”) with Norman Blake on guitar, organ, and vocals

Ohm
Did I Tell You
Cone of Silence
Goin’ Back (Carole King & Gerry Goffin)
Avalon or Someone Similar
Season of the Shark
Circling the Sun (Jonny)
Moby Octopad
I Feel Like Going Home
Walking On Ice (The Riot Squad)
I Wanna Be Your Lover (Bob Dylan) (with Don Fleming on guitar)
Evelyn Marble (Velvet Monkeys) (DF on guitar and vocals)
God Knows It’s True (Teenage Fanclub)
I Heard You Looking
Eight Days A Week (The Beatles)